I moved my Grandma to Linux.
As support for Windows10 is ending this week, it was finally time for my grandma (and maybe my dad in the near future) to move on. She is not the most computer-literate, but she uses the computer for some basic tasks like email, looking up recipes or managing her photos (no banking or anything or anything really sensitive, so maybe she would have been fine on windows10 but we wanted to be safe, rather than sorry). I was pleasantly surprised that all the (proprietary) programs she uses were either in the repos, downloadable from the web or had a foss alternative that she liked. Also, the printer was plug-and-play, so hardware support has definitely improved since the last time I tried to print something myself.
As the change happened just this weeks, I have not heard back on how she likes it, but as I have been the technical support in my family anyways, I don’t think that will be a problem.
Now my dad: he does way more stuff: banking, taxes, online-shopping… Currently he is considering signing up for Windows10 extended support, but that only pushes the problem for a year, so the topic will come up again.
Both of them were running Intel 7th-gen, so CPUs that are ~9years old. I really don’t get, why Microsoft decided, that these (especially for their use case) very capable CPUs are not good enough to run Windows11…